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Ivan Turgenev


Born
in Oryol, Oryol Governorate, Russian Empire
November 09, 1818

Died
September 03, 1883

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Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (Cyrillic: Иван Сергеевич Тургенев) was a novelist, poet, and dramatist, and now ranks as one of the towering figures of Russian literature. His major works include the short-story collection A Sportsman’s Sketches (1852) and the novels Rudin (1856), Home of the Gentry (1859), On the Eve (1860), and Fathers and Sons (1862).

These works offer realistic, affectionate portrayals of the Russian peasantry and penetrating studies of the Russian intelligentsia who were attempting to move the country into a new age. His masterpiece, Fathers and Sons, is considered one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century.

Turgenev was a contemporary with Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy. While these wrote about church and reli
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Average rating: 3.92 · 210,945 ratings · 15,196 reviews · 2,211 distinct works • Similar authors
Fathers and Sons

4.01 avg rating — 106,551 ratings — published 1862 — 96 editions
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First Love

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3.76 avg rating — 28,287 ratings — published 1860 — 29 editions
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Mumu

3.78 avg rating — 11,497 ratings — published 1852 — 47 editions
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Sketches from a Hunter's Album

3.96 avg rating — 9,344 ratings — published 1852 — 346 editions
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Spring Torrents

3.96 avg rating — 6,123 ratings — published 1872 — 381 editions
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Home of the Gentry

3.92 avg rating — 5,937 ratings — published 1859 — 660 editions
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Rudin

3.79 avg rating — 5,038 ratings — published 1856 — 2 editions
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Diary of a Superfluous Man

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3.84 avg rating — 4,713 ratings — published 1850 — 10 editions
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On the Eve

3.83 avg rating — 4,330 ratings — published 1860 — 398 editions
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Asya

3.97 avg rating — 4,089 ratings — published 1858 — 50 editions
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“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
― Ivan Turgenev

“We sit in the mud, my friend, and reach for the stars.”
― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

“Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights - the right to swear and curse at your fate!”
― Ivan S. Turgenev, Rudin

Polls

April 2017 Old School Classic Poll

Villette by Charlotte Brontë 1853, 573 pages
 
  60 votes, 20.5%

 
  42 votes, 14.3%

Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev 1862, 244 pages
 
  37 votes, 12.6%

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol 1842, 512 pages
 
  31 votes, 10.6%

 
  28 votes, 9.6%

 
  26 votes, 8.9%

 
  25 votes, 8.5%

Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell 1853, 432 pages
 
  19 votes, 6.5%

 
  10 votes, 3.4%

 
  9 votes, 3.1%

 
  6 votes, 2.0%

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